Republicans in Washington have waged a war against the American Bar Association, the nation’s largest association of legal workers, amid the organization putting out a sweeping and defiant statement criticizing the Trump administration‘s actions.

Republican senators called for President Donald Trump to excise the ABA from the judicial nomination process, and Attorney General Pam Bondi took aim at its authority over law school accreditation. These moves came against the backdrop of the Trump administration more broadly targeting what the White House has said is the politicization of “big law.”